(My husband is a huge ‘Star Wars’ fan. We are watching ‘Criminal Minds’ and we’re at the point in this episode where the local sheriff tells his son to go gather up the football team to help the search party.)

Me: *without missing a beat, in a whiny voice* “But Uncle Owen, I wanted to go into Tosche Station and pick up some power converters!”

(My best friend and are I are incredibly close, to the point where people think we are dating. My friend is male, while I am female. We go out on weekly dinner dates during school, and this happens on one of our ‘dates.’)

Me: “Are we not allowed to have friends of the opposite gender without getting asked if we are together?

(At this point I pretend to lay down on the table in exasperation and he grabs my hands to warm his own hands up. He continues to hold my hands across that table until he feels his hands are adequately warm.)